Abstract
Older scientists are sometimes nostalgic for a time when science was generally considered good. Of course there were religious opposition to evolution, fringe adherents to astrology, and the Soviet eccentricities of Lysenkoism. Nuclear energy showed the dangers of science-based technology. But in American academia, even humanists, who did not much like science, thought that scientists learned something about reality. Those of the academic left were often the strongest supporters of free scientific investigation.